Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-07
PROTESTS FRoH KVRRY aUARrKR
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iNF~M Inc CFe49N10As
Tbs East. as well as the West and
souta, b beRtnning 20 excIaim against
the Inter State CommeFee Law. and Il
looks nov a. II the whole country would
soon BE against il. The Boston Herald
voices the judgment Of thai center u
Eastern trade against the bill. by re-
marking thatit surely uiIi Kill the erain
and WOOL trade Of Boston. Formerly
Boston GOT the same rates on grain from
TIE west es New York. But new, In
toe adjustment Of grain rates to the
Atlantic seaboafd, the trunk lines, tax
ing the short haul as the basis, have
made the rate TO New York frsm Ohica
90, % cents per II } pounds. exactly the
same IS the former rate, while for Bos-
tie rate is } cents. The wool trade Of
Boston has also received notice Of an
increase 10 rates from the Pacific slope,
whieh. the Herald says. must prove pro-
hibltory, and the butter and cheese
trade OF the city has also been notified
OF an increase Of rates from the West.
thus. large part of Boaton's export
trade will be killed BY the bill. New
York, able to Get lower rates because
she - nearer TO the producers Of the
west, will take much Of Boston's trade,
New England. Therefore. is likely to be
in humor to join the South and West
IA their movement 10 Congress next
winter against the bill.
IL 10 really edifying to find Q great
newsr1per In the great city Of Boston
protesting against the bill for the same
reason urged against Il by he village
paper on the Pacific Slope. Thus, the
Bossoa Herald says: "fhe design Of the
bill was ostensibly 10 equrli zs existing
ln1ustices IN the direction OF distances
hauled, bat that thisshouid not be done
by raising the lonR-haul rates lie very
plain" This, too, is the protest Of
Portland, Oregon.
Naturally, places situated like Boston
aud Portland and Galveston and Mo
bile think the inequalities that called
for remedy were not to be remedied by
raising the lone-haul rates. Nov there
e another class Of disappointed people.
These last live in the towns Of the in
terrier. They thought. as the Arlington
(Oregon) TINES expresses it. that the
bill, instead of raising the rates upon
the long haul, would lower them uIon
the short haul. But il has not turled
out 50. The roads do not reduce the
rates TO intermediate places, because
they know they will lose much
through business which they must
make up somehow; and, moreover, they
know that II they once reduce their
local rates they can never restore them.
Taking the circumstances together Il
is not surprising to hear from Boston
the protest against the injury 10 her
grain and wool business, nor from the
South the declaration that IL the conse-
Qaences had been foEeseen the repre-
ntativss from that section would have
opposed the bill unanimously; nor from
the West the dolsful complaint that the
Law hurts everybody and benefits no
body. Nor Is Il surprising 90 get dis
patch from Washington, made Up from
knowledge Of the protests and appeals
that come 90 the Commission from all
parts OF the country, which says THE
very clasres.who we're most clamorousfer
its passage are among the first 10 make
complaint of the harshneas Of its pro-
visions. The folly Of trying 10 make
iron-clad rules for the RovernmGat Of
commerce, is already apparent. The
railroads In every direction have been
compelled TO change their rates in an
tioipation Of carrying out the statute,
which makes the burden to be borne By
the people all the greater, and even fer
short distances sthe prices 2of tickets
for carrying passengers have advanced
Is per cent" So much clearer Ia hind
sight than foresight in this world.